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Chapter 1110Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.11The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.12Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God had determined to do, was awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until night by all means was desirous to know it.

Chapter 121And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.2And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.3Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, they were strangled.4And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.5So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.6Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.

Chapter 131The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.2After that I became lord over many nations and had dominion over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority, but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and making my kingdom peaceable, and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace, which is desired of all men.3Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to pass, Aman, that excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his constant good will and steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the second place in the kingdom,4Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to ail nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go forward.5Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:6Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:7That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.8Then Mardocheus thought upon all the works of the Lord, and made his prayer unto him,9Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty: for the whole world is in thy power, and if thou hast appointed to save Israel, there is no man that can gainsay thee:10For thou hast made heaven and earth, and all the wondrous things under the heaven.

There is a large degree of variety in the presentation of the Greek additions to the Book of Esther. In the Greek, the additions appear throughout the text, and are fully incorporated into the rest of the narrative. The 1611 Authorized Version simply pulled these passages out of the text, and listed them consecutively as chapters at the end of the book, sometimes in the wrong order, where they lack context and where their actual meaning can be difficult to discern.
Compounding the difficulty is the use of Greek names in the Apocryphal section, whereas the rest of Esther in the King James uses the Hebrew names. Thus "Mordecai" becomes "Mardocheus" and "Ahasuerus" becomes "Artaxerxes."